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MODERNIZED PERSIA LACKS OLD ROMANCE; Country Making Rapid Progress and Developing Resources With Local Capital. HEDJAZ FORGING AHEAD King Ibn Saud's Poilcy Results In Marked Improvement in Trade and Transportation. Better Times in 1926. The Jeddah Conference Failure. Hedjaz to the Fore. MODERNIZED PERSIA LACKS OLD ROMANCE King Starts Repair Shop.

By JOSEPH M. LEVY. Special Correspondence of THE NEW YORK TIMES. ();

September 09, 1928,

, Section Editorial, Page 53, Column , words

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JERUSALEM, Aug. 24.--Persia! The very mention of the name immediately brings to mind the lazy, listless life of the Orient. Olive-complexioned, firey-eyed sheiks outstretched on luxurious divans, smoking their...

September 09, 1928

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